We were very proud to have run last night’s event, #WhyKnot, in collaboration with Guardian Australia. We hosted a panel of speakers including Australian Marriage Equality’s Rodney Croome, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten MP, Greens Leader Senator Richard Di Natale, Guardian writer Van Badham and Kristina Keneally.

If you missed it you can read last night’s commentary and live feed at: http://bit.ly/1PIMJlC

THIS IS *NOT* AN APRIL FOOL. Malcom Turnbull is seriously proposing to end federal government funding of state schools but maintain funding to private schools!

WHAT?!!

http://m.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/malcolm-turnbulls-education-revolution-end-federal-support-for-public-schools-20160330-gnuo4l.html

This is my latest in the Guardian, and it’s about the intersection of unemployment with environmental exploitation. In a South Australia desperate for jobs, the environment is played off against the needs of families communities for economic survival; it doesn’t have to be this way.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/30/the-fight-for-the-environment-and-the-fight-for-blue-collar-jobs-are-one-and-the-same

Today in “my Premier is better than your Premier”… Daniel Andrews commits his government to fixing the broken system that has failed the victims of family violence. Thank. God.

http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/its-time-to-fix-our-broken-family-violence-system/

Feeling depressed? Stay off social media!

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/social-media-depression-facebook-twitter-health-young-study-a6948401.html

For those of you who may have missed my review of Madonna’s “Rebel Heart” show in the Guardian…

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/14/madonna-review-pop-queen-pole-dances-high-kicks-and-bigs-up-mike-tyson